The “Allison comes home today!” edition
- The Tea Party • The Bazaar
- Pain of Salvation • Brickwork Descend 2
- Mogwai • Christmas Steps
- Vetiver • Oh Papa
- Arcturus • Naar Kulda Tar
- Kim Won Il • Mother Universe (trailer verson) [Wonderful Days OST]
- Neutral Milk Hotel • Two-Headed Boy (part two)
- Shadows Fall • Crushing Belial
- Fiona Apple • Window
- Silverchair • Emotion Sickness
We’ll build our walls of aluminum; we’ll fill our mouths with cinnamon:
- Faux Real, Tho (heavy with bands of the [Indefinite Article + Plural Noun] variety)
- The Smedley Log (it’s a good thing he ended up with a short Sufjan title, or he could have doubled the size of his post)
- Apartment 2024 (she’s going to Portland: drink some Rogue beer for me)
- The Sam and Beckyboo Show (with a lot of songs that make me feel old)
- Philly Transplant (I can never see or hear Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” without thinking of a video my friend did for a senior year project, which involved a parody of the music video, in which Wiglaf plays a keyboard on the back of a moving vehicle, mourning the loss of Beowulf)
- Rusty’s Kingdom (I still remember the day I first discovered Elend’s Umbersun; the first track damn near made me shit my pants)
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Hmm, I have never heard of any of these songs, guess I will have to check em out.
It’s a pretty wacky mix. Tea Party is hard-rockish indie from Canada—some similarities to Pearl Jam. Pain of Salvation is progressive rock from Sweden, though the listed song is from an acoustic album. Mogwai is hard postrock. Vetiver is… well, I don’t know what the hell Vetiver is. The Kim Won Il is an orchestral song from the soundtrack for an blended anime movie called Wonderful Days. Neutral Milk Hotel is solidly indie (appropriate for fans of the Decemberists, and vice versa). Shadows Fall is thrash. I don’t even like it anymore, but I still have the CD, which I bought in my very distant love affair with Century Media. Fiona Apple should be an obvious one, though “Window” is from her new album. Silverchair is rock from Australia—”Emotion Sickness” is cool because it features Daniel Helfgott (of Shine fame) on piano.
Hey - as old kid on the block, don’t worry - I’ll always out-geezer you!